Barker reveals sun could be setting solar farm incentives

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Industry warns possible feed-in tariff review of ground-mounted solar systems will cause further market uncertainty

Climate Minister Greg Barker yesterday hinted that the government could reform the feed-in tariff incentive scheme to stop large scale solar arrays from taking advantage of the incentive scheme. Responding...

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